Hijabi Muslim Noor Tagouri photographed for Playboy magazine
PLAYBOY magazine and a hijab-wearing Muslim woman don’t usually go hand-in-hand. excuse me while I squint in sunny #Córdoba. Good thing is, the entire city…
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Report: Headscarves a barrier on German job market
German women who wear a headscarf and have a Turkish name must write four times more cover letters than other job seekers to be offered…
Quartet ‘gravely concerned’ about Israeli settlement expansion
The so-called Middle East Quartet has censured the Tel Aviv regime for its settlement expansion policy, saying the attitude undermines efforts to find a solution…
Saudi women push open door to legal profession
Change comes slowly in the patriarchal and religiously conservative society of Saudi Arabia. Yet women in the Saudi legal profession have achieved a phenomenal transformation…
The tragedy of the Palestinians
Speeches made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday at the United Nations sum up the state of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Led…
Turkey enraged as US provides more weapons to Syrian Kurds
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that his country’s relations would further strain with the United States if Washington continues to support Kurdish…
Lavrov: US-Russian agreements on Syria must be saved
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the United Nations on Friday that US-Russian agreements aimed at ending the war in Syria must be salvaged as…
For the first time, Saudi Arabia is being attacked by both Sunni and Shia leaders
The prelates included Egypt’s Grand Imam, Ahmed el-Tayeb of al-Azhar, the most important centre of theological study in the Islamic world, who only a year…
Obama: We don’t need the Saudis
Obama has threatened to veto a bill passed by Congress that would allow victims of September 11 to sue Saudi Arabia for damages. Currently, victims…
Personal Tales of Love, Divorce and Guardianship in Saudi Arabia
Tasneem Alsultan was married for four years before she confided in others what she had known for a long time: her marriage wasn’t how a…